TITLE: Two-Stage Process for Conversion of Synthesis Gas to High Quality Transportation Fuels. Quarterly Report, 1 October-31 December 1983.

AUTHOR: J. C. W. Kuo.

INST.  AUTHOR: Mobil Research and Development Corp., Paulsboro, NJ.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  Feb 84,  46p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE84012953/INW

ABSTRACT:

The status of the Slurry Fischer-Tropsch two-stage pilot plant and the two tall hot-flow models is described. A new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst was evaluated in a small bubble-column reactor, and the run is detailed in this report. Also, a new device for measuring the particle size distribution of catalyst was tested. Photographs of bubble patterns in the small hot-flow models are presented, qualitatively illustrating the effects of orifice and sintered-metal-plate feed-gas distributors, and the superficial gas velocity. In addition, Fischer-Tropsch reactor-wax from the two-stage BSU was used in the hot-flow studies for the first time, and the results verify that different waxes can behave very differently in similar systems. Finally, a mathematical model was used to evaluate a series of continuous stirred-tank Fischer-Tropsch reactors as an alternative to bubble-column reactors. (ERA citation 09:030465)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/60019-2

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-83PC60019